An elderly man who said he was a former Japanese soldier during World War II listens to reporters' questions at a town hall in the farming town of Malungon near General Santos City in the southern Philippines June 2, 2005. Japanese officials and media rushed to the southern Philippines late last week after a Japanese man promised to set up a meeting with two elderly men who would be the first Japanese cases in 30 years of wartime stragglers being found. (China Daily/Reuters Photo)